Maybe You Should Talk To Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
"Rarely have I read a book that challenged me to see myself in an entirely new light, and was at the same time laugh-out-loud funny and utterly absorbing."--Katie Couric
"This is a daring, delightful, and transformative book."--Arianna Huffington, Founder, Huffington Post and Founder & CEO, Thrive Global
"Wise, warm, smart, and funny. You must read this book."--Susan Cain, New York Times best-selling author of Quiet
From a New York Times best-selling author, psychotherapist, and national advice columnist, a hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world--where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she).
One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose of-fice she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but.
As Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her patients' lives -- a self-absorbed Hollywood producer, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness, a senior citizen threatening to end her life on her birthday if nothing gets better, and a twenty-something who can't stop hooking up with the wrong guys -- she finds that the questions they are struggling with are the very ones she is now bringing to Wendell.
With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope and change.
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is rev-olutionary in its candor, offering a deeply per-sonal yet universal tour of our hearts and minds and providing the rarest of gifts: a boldly reveal-ing portrait of what it means to be human, and a disarmingly funny and illuminating account of our own mysterious lives and our power to transform them.
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"There's no hierarchy of pain. Suffering shouldn't be ranked, because pain is not a contest."
Reading this was like going to a psychologist. I absolutely loved it. It made me wonder what it was really like to sit in front of one who can help me sort out my thoughts and my feelings. Mental health is a very important subject to me. This gripped me because not only did the author herself talk about her own patients, it also mentioned her experience as a patient. A lot of psychological terms were used in this book as well, but I wasn't left fumbling trying to understand what she was saying. Everything was simple to understand, to empathise, and interesting for me to look into the mind of a psychologist.
Most importantly, all of it was real. It's a memoir, and I'm so thankful to Gottlieb for taking the time and effort to write this book.
There were many subjects that were mentioned, but I found the most impactful the quote above. It's very relevant to me right now, because I have someone in my life who is known to be emotionally dismissive (for me to know this term, it is also because more and more people are coming to realise its toxicity and the effects on one's mental health). While some may think they are saying something reassuring, it is not. All too often, these people who have some woes in life and will voice it out end up being told, "Stop complaining. Other people have it worse than you." They might end up thinking, "Ohyeah. My thoughts and feelings are irrelevant compared to others." or "I should stop complaining and try to suck it up." Their feelings will be hurt, and so will their mental health. Pain is never a contest. It's high-time everybody knows it. One obviously doesn't tell a stage I cancer patient to stop being so upset just because there's a stage IV cancer patient dying somewhere else. One obviously doesn't tell someone suffering that everything happens for a reason. Be there for the people who trust you enough to voice out their woes. They don't need to be brought down further. Honestly.
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